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Fossilized Sauropod Guts Reveal Their Last Meals and Rude Eating Habits

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Source: IFLScience
Fossilized Sauropod Guts Reveal Their Last Meals and Rude Eating Habits
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The discovery of the first sauropod stomach contents from 100 million years ago reveals they were herbivores that relied on fermentation and gut microbes for digestion, not chewing, and suggests they played a significant role as ecosystem engineers throughout their lives.

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  1. We’ve Found Sauropod Stomach Contents For The First Time, Revealing They Had Terrible Manners  IFLScience
  2. Gut fossil from Aussie dinosaur 'Judy' first to show what sauropods ate  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  3. Fossilized dinosaur gut shows that sauropods barely chewed  EurekAlert!
  4. Sauropod dinosaur's last meal reveals that it didn't bother to chew  New Scientist
  5. Paleontologists dig through fossilized dino guts to see what’s inside  Yahoo

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